10 Movie Endings You Can Only Work Out For Yourself

Peter Weir's brilliant mystery-drama Picnic at Hanging Rock depicts - or rather, doesn't - the disappearance of two schoolgirls and their teacher at Australia's Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day in 1900.

The film ends without the trio's vanishing act ever being solved, while the death of the school's headmistress, Miss Appleyard (Rachel Roberts), can either be interpreted as an accident or suicide.

Though the movie makes it abundantly clear that something incredibly strange is going on at Hanging Rock - with the eerie presence of invisible, seemingly supernatural forces - like its source novel it stops short of granting the viewer any concrete resolution.

A cut final chapter from the novel would've revealed that the girls disappeared into another dimension - a revelation which was quite sensibly excised in lieu of a more provocative ambiguous ending.

Yet audiences are of course free to consider that non-ending as a possibility, or equally that there was no supernatural explanation for the girls' disappearance at all.